Surrogate

Ares revolutionized the secuirty buisness when it came out with the securo-drone, the first in what would be their Surrogate Line. A rigger (or even a layman with a specially designed VCR pod) could control a security drone as if it were themselves, a bipedial robot under their complete control, allowing them to be patrolling, fighting in wars, patrolling the streets, without any physical harm coming to themselves.

With the advent of cloning and AI, riggers have been able to build realistic molds on these Surrogates, and some of them may be completely indistinguishable from normal people (except on the astral, of course). Some more advanced riggers can even connect to more than one unit at a time for maximum security with minimum human necessity.

Of course, the system is not perfect- while the rigger can experience sight and sound (and some are equipped with a detector that mimics scent); magic, touch, taste, and true odor are not yet within the drone's capability. Being a drone, they are more suseptable to physical illusions, though active riggers can use their own intelligence to combat illusions rather than the drone's.

The drones also require a strong signal, and are suseptable to jamming, there are generally encrypted signal boosters in facilities which use such drones.

Still, they have revolutionized warfare, replacing the need to ever send humans directly into battle (though the cost of a proper unit still makes it difficult for a replacement army to be comprised completely of them). Many megacorps make full use of these in low-security facilities (while higher ones use a combination of these, and living secuirty forces).

Ares is still doing research in their Surrogate line to attempt to replicate the sensation of touch, balance, and similar sensations. It's expected that once they figure it out, mankind may develop into a full rigging state, sending out drones for everything except copulation (though when reproduction is not the goal, perhaps even that!).

With the drones unable to use magic, there are still plenty of reasons why not to pilot such a thing, but these can be quite valuable to a shadowrunner- or a johnson, though neither they, nor their specially built VCRs, are yet available to the general public.